Apropos of nothing (I hope), Shawn Mullin's Beautiful Wreck has been swirling around my brain the last 24 hours. Making dinner last night, “such a beautiful wreck". 2am wandering to the bathroom, “what a beautiful wreck you are”. Walk the dog this morning, “but you make such a beautiful wreck”.
The other day, shortly after my wife told me about an appt she'd set up in September I said, “great, now that's stuck in my head.”
“What?”
“The song”
[blink, blink]
“September? Earth Wind and Fire??”
"uh, maybe? not sure”
[I pull up the song sure she'd instantly recognize, she doesn’t]
"Not sure I listened to lyrics back then.”
Meanwhile I see a sign that says “turn around” and end up with Bonnie Tyler stuck in my head for days.
Hoverflies are the most recent to investigate my edibility. That big toe is getting pretty calloused after a few weeks of being barefoot, might be too tough even for macerating fly spit.
Hot day as we hit the 90’s for the first time. Enjoying shade and a light breeze on the deck while bugs check my blood levels and a tent caterpillar detours over my foot. 🦶 🐛
I've been wondering if something in the phone's camera system is visible or audible to bugs and birds. Like I can move around, get closer, but as soon as the camera app is opened that seems to spook them most of the time.
Just me?
A long time ago I made a little pond in our back yard. Ostensibly for the indoor fish (Koi, Comets) to spend Summer outside, but then the scope (and pond) got bigger. Waterfall, rocks for frogs to sunbathe, and deep sections so fish could survive Winter. May 19, 2004 I got the idea to add local fauna to the pond in the form of a couple scoops of plants and bugs from a nearby vernal pool (i.e. roadside ditch). Enjoying water bugs and tadpoles noodling around I spotted a small clump of sticks ... moving.
Posted about it on my blog and a reader ID’d it as a Caddisfly Larva.
Flash forward to yesterday, checking out the frogs in our messy little pond, when a bundle of sticks walked by underwater.
Here's a photo of the caddisfly larva from 2004. Also some photos of the pond from its initial expansion to when the plants really started taking off. Years later the liner got a slow leak. It's one of those things where I don't want to dismantle the whole thing to fix it when it's full of tadpoles, but at the end of the season it's too cold.
Monday morning trail run had an unexpected "private land" sign half mile down one of the trails. Never fear, I've been practicing bushwhacking for years! #TrailRunning#mushrooms#salamander#bear